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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Lullaby
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'She signs the paper with a reluctant, self conscious 'S', for her name is Sarah and she can neither read nor write. At fifteen, and after three years of service at Barlborough, she will be free from S for scullery maid, servant and sexual object as she enters, not from love of from choice, her marriage to Jame. The no-longer bastard child kicks inside her: a gentleman's seed or a coal miner's? It matters little, for only one roof will give it a name - a miner's cottage and sixty pounds a year. It's the best she can do.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Island no. 149 2017 11563457 2017 periodical issue

    'Eighteen months ago, at the fag end of a mild New South Wales winter, I moved with my family from the Blue Mountains outside Sydney to South America : Chile first, then Argentina, and ultimately Easter Island, to research a book about my family. They were Scottish merchants, those forbears, Wee Free Protestants with a Bible in one hand and an account ledger in the other. Who set up business in Valparaiso, Chile, in the mid-nineteenth century and then went about becoming rich.'  (Editorial)

         2017     pg. 107-111
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